Description:- The holotype specimen consists a fragmented but articulated carapace composed of the nuchal, 1st right peripheral 1, right costal 1, left and right costals 2 through 8, right peripherals 4,5, 7 and partial 9 and left peripherals 4 through 8, and partial 9 and 10. An associated posterior lobe of plastron consists of an associated right and left hypoplastron missing most of both hypoplastral bridges but preserving the abdominal-femoral sulcus. The anterior portions of both xiphiplastra are respectively present and associated with the hypoplastra and each other. The femoral-anal sulcus is preserved on the right xiphiplastral portion, as is a small reduced pubic scar and broken attached blade on the visceral side. The long axis of the pubic scar is less than a third (29 %) of the proximal width of the xiphiplastron. The left xiphiplastral anal lobe is present but detached and connected via wooden splint, preserving the entirety of the ischial suture scar.

On the carapace, all respective scute sulci are strongly preserved. The surface sculpture of consists of irregular small and minute pock-marking throughout, no formed discernible pattern present, except at the posterior end where the suprapygal is crossed by strong longitudinal ridges separated by deep sulci. These are not as clearly observable on the holotype because the sulci are filled with adherent matrix but are clearly visible in the referred suprapygals (Figure 10). A fully formed cervical scute is present, well-delineated and unlike the infrequent aberrancy of cervical scutes seen in some modern Australian Elseya of the subgenus Elseya. Marginal 1 is wider than long. V1-Pl sulcus is semi-bowed convex exteriorly such that V1 is considerably wider than the prospective width of V2. Regarding the nuchal, the anterior portion of the nuchal is more than 5x that of the posterior portion (character N). The anterior margin of the nuchal is convex in the holotype, whereas it is concave in NTM P9464-136.

Viscerally the suture of dorsal rib 1 and the entirety of the costal axillary suture scar are fully preserved. The axillary scar is a relatively long, overall narrowed but robust structure that retains a consistent width along its full length, showing no medial constrictions. The angle of declination from that of the midline of the carapace on the anterior portion of the scar is nearly 50-55 degrees, rather typical of both extant subgeneric Elseya and ‘Pelocomostes’ taxa. The terminus of the axillary scar lies somewhat distal to the terminus of dorsal rib 1 (character G; Figure 8a, b), the spatial length being short of the peripheral 1-costal 1 suture length (character S) such that the axillary terminus lies directly below the mid-point of the peripheral 1 and costal 1 suture (character H). The terminus of the axillary scar lies posterior of the dorsal rib 1 terminus (character M). The spatial distance between the termina of the dorsal rib 1 and the axillary scar is 1.5x as long as the suture of peripheral 2-costal 1 embedded in the scar (character T, U). The embedded suture is shorter than to the exposed anterior suture of peripheral 2 (character I) and there is no exposed posterior suture (Character I’). The axillary scar base can be projected to be larger in surface area than the axillary terminus (character K); the axillary terminus ends in a robust finger-like projection (character L) and the base of the scar across the costal-peripheral sutures is only slightly wider than the overall width of the terminus (character O). The length of the axillary scar is shorter than the length of the nuchal-peripheral 1-costal 1 conjunction to the center base of the scar (Character P). The axillary scar length is longer than both the lengths of the peripheral 1-2 and 2-3 sutures. The angle of the costal 1-peripheral 1-2 sutures is more than 130 degrees (character V). The overall shape of the axillary scar is an elongated irregular polygon. The base of the axillary scar lies well below the posterior most portion of the nuchal (character J). As the first dorsal vertebra is not preserved, we cannot discern characters X, Y, Z.